Top
cardamom, black currant, pink pepper

Base
sandalwood,  vanilla, candied ginger

Kefi is an enthusiastic celebration of spice and natural materials. At the top there is an absolute made from the heart of black currant buds grown in the Burgundy region of France, and harvested only 3 months out of the year. Raw, this material can can smell dense and tart and slightly phenolic. Diluted, blended, wrestled into fussy submission, it is plums and stewed fruit, and tart, sweet spring in a bottle.

There are other materials of note, too. A remarkably dense, almost syrupy cardamom extraction from the most volcanic regions of Guatemala, a unique red ginger that is smaller, sweeter, and more ethereal than its more common counterpart. This ginger is grown in Indonesia and steam distilled at the site of harvest, to ensure the preservation of the most vital and lively parts of the oil.

No one needs to know any of this stuff to know if you like the way something smells, or the way something makes you feel. But for those of us who geek out impossibly hard on our materials and what makes something special, Kefi is simply sublime.

Right now.